Dead Creek Saloon — Restaurant in Birch Run Township

We got to the restaurant at approximately 6:00pm. We were seated and had drinks within a few minutes. My mom and I then placed our food order, which was just a small order of nachos and a taco salad. No appetizers and probably two of the simplest items on the menu. A group of three people came in after us and received their food 10-15 minutes BEFORE we got ours. By the way, we got our food at 6:55pm on the dot. I know this because we were seconds away from getting up and walking out because we had plans to see a movie at the movie theater at 7:05pm. Since our food finally came out, we asked the waitress to give us take out boxes and our bill so we could make it to the movie in time and still grab a little bite to eat on the way. While waiting for our boxes and the bill, my mom and I started eating. I received the WORST nachos I have ever had in my life. The meat was cold and old looking, like it had been sitting for awhile. I tried to pick up a chip and every chip on my plate came with it because they were all stuck together. I tried separating the chips and it took so much force that when it did finally come apart, my chip flew out of my hand and onto the floor. My nachos were cold and appeared as if they had been sitting out for God knows how long. My moms taco salad wasn’t much better, but atleast her meat was warmish vs cold like mine. Then to make the situation worse, it took the waitress a good 5-10 mins just to give us our bill. When we finally did get the bill, it was a whopping $31 and some cents for a small nacho and taco salad with two pops. To top it all off, the waitress didn’t seem to care. There was no “sorry for the wait” or even “have a good night.” So overall, the customer service was flat out BAD, the food was TERRIBLE, and we were still hungry and ended up being late to the movie. I will not be returning here anytime soon,...

Bacteria Cesspool Saloon. My family and I stopped in here for a bite to eat after setting up our camp site at the Yogi Bear just down the road. First of all the signs advertise a casual family dining atmosphere. It's mostly a dinghy low light dive bar with a handful of elderly hillbillies holding down some of the bar stools. They also have two electronic slot machines where a greasy looking obese man in the corner persisted to smack down on the play button through the duration of our hour and a half visit. The waitress had me repeat my order to her three times because she kept spacing out and then didn't write anything down. We survived the not so special fried appetizer platter after a long wait and then suffered another 30-40min wait for our entrees. Upon delivering the main course two of three items were incorrect and were taken back without apology.

Just as my wife and children began to eat, I witnessed from my seat at the table an onubstrucked view into the kitchen. The cook dropped a large pile of food onto the unkempt floor, scooped it up with his bare hands, threw it off to the side, then opened the cooler grabbed some raw meat and threw it on the grill. I flagged down the waitress, cancels my order and informed her of what I saw.

The waitress went off to talk to the cook then came back and told me that I didn't see anything like that and that the cook would never do something like that. I swallowed my fury, paid the bill and filed a complaint to the health depart. No we don't need to go boxes.

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This place put the dead in dead creek. As in, you probably shouldn't be caught dead dining at this "Family Restaurant". Nothing in the atmosphere seemed very family friendly. No staff seemed friendly enough to begin with.

Was extremely crowded but decided to give it a shot anyway and grabbed a table. Thats when some clearly disgruntled female waitress came over an informed us of what would be nearly an hour and a half wait for food due to their being only 1 cook working during veterans day weekend.

That was my first issue. Why would such a small and cramped resturaunt continue to seat and serve so many people while lacking their most essential workers; cooks? Sounds like a real recipe to success.

Nonetheless we decided to drive on and ask questions about the menu to our waitress, who was immediately irritated when asked what kind of soups they had. We proceeded with another question about some sides when this waitress blatantly disrespected my wife and sighed and rolled her eyes before answering what questions we had.

Anyways, after she took our order and disappeared, we thought we would save the lone cook a hassel by leaving after that. My wife tried to get the waitress but she was to preoccupied at the two attempts of flagging her down. So we walked out.

Definately don't reccomend this place. There are better tourist traps...